What price tranquillity?

Article Abstract:

Community nurses ought to be given greater knowledge about helping people dependent on tranquillisers. There are specialist community drug teams, but they focus mostly on those using illegal drugs. Doctors are increasingly supplying repeat prescriptions of tranquillisers, despite the advice of experts that they should be used for a few weeks only, to avoid patients becoming dependent. Grave psychological and physical risks are associated with tranquilliser withdrawal in patients who are left unprepared by medical professionals.

Care and treatment, Usage, Column, Drug abuse treatment, Tranquilizing drugs, Tranquilizing agents, Drug abuse, Community health nursing

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Lunch not just for wimps: the NHS needs to dismantle the macho culture which says only wimps have lunch-times and holidays

Article Abstract:

A Royal College of Psychatrists report on depression looks at how the illness affects men and that many men feel anxious about major aspects of their lives. However, women are also oppressed by family life and are under financial pressures. NHS organisations need to dismantle their macho culture and examine how they can help both men and women cope more effectively with the pressures facing them.

Management, Socialized medicine

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The hidden illness

Article Abstract:

NHS managers should be trained to recognize and tackle the problems of heavy drinking and drug misuse at work. In many cases, staff with such problems have been treated insensitively and invariably been placed under more pressure, making the problem even worse. Some authorities in the health service are developing services to deal with workplace drinking.

Human resource management, Employee alcoholism, Medical personnel, United Kingdom. National Health Service, Health services administrators, Alcohol use, Employee drug abuse

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